Randfish: Are you sure nytimes's archive was behind the wall for search engines? I've always thought Googlebot was allowed to crawl it, but when a user gets to it, the user wouldn't be able to see the content, and they've notified Google not to display the "Cached" link in its SERPs?

This is only based off my memory of my experiences, so I definitely can be wrong about this one. :)

I don't think it's new that NYT has "opened its doors to search". By what I remembered, even though users are required to register, NYT's always done a "user agent detection" to show search engines all its content. But now when people get to the content, they'll stick around instead of having to register, get annoyed, and leave.Good job NYT. September 25, 2007

As an in-house search marketing manager, the hardest part about SEO is to get others aware of it. I personally am not a developer, but I know what needs to be done for SEO.
It really frustrates me when a whole section of a site is built by pulling content from JavaScript, and then they "have me take a look for SEO suggestions". After I make my SEO recommendations for the page, they say "I'm sorry, but the page is already built, and your recommendations are out of the scope of the current project". The only thing left is some Title and Meta tags. October 26, 2006

Hi, I'm an SEO specialist, currently work for website for a major newspaper. I think this information is extremely helpful.
Other than the "traditional SEO techniques" (Such as keyword filled news tite, within h1 tags, etc), is there anything specific about "optimizing for Google News" I should know about?
Thank,
--Paul. October 20, 2006